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...idea of class struggle was certainly not original with Marx. What he did was rewrite history with class struggle in the center. Superficially, it might seem that the abundance of goods The Machine could produce would soften the class struggle; Marx said that this very possibility of abundance would sharpen class struggle, that the capitalists would use the state's police power, its war-making power and all other means to prevent glutted markets, i.e., abundance. It followed that the workers had to seize the state by revolution (they would never get it any other...
...France Dimanche is equally violent. Every week it hits 565,000 Frenchmen in the eyes with Corre's "American-style journalism." He was among the first to import American tricks: crack rewrite-men sharpen his news, splashy pictures-occasionally nudes-and sassy headlines decorate it, personality angles and impious gibes at national heroes help sell it. And a racy Gallic sauce-far hotter than anything U.S. tabloids dare dish out-flavors it. For balance-or to confuse the reader-Corre has printed Steinbeck on Russia, and serialized such books as Mr. Adam...
...worked the major kinks out of the new photoengraving (VariType) process that had replaced typesetting. Papers were normal size, and readers who had complained about the typed look now liked it: they found the bigger type easier to read. As it took up more space, editors had to sharpen their stories...
...second time since before the Virginia trek, the A eleven entered a scrimmage yesterday. . Blocking, not breakaway running, was the order of the day, as the coaches drilled linemen and backs in a grueling session designed to sharpen the timing of blocks before Saturday...
...land and the gods were thirsty. To water the land, and to control the temperamental waters of the Kosi River in Bihar Province, the Indian Government planned the world's highest dam (730 ft.). But many a simple villager thought the plans for the dam would simply sharpen the thirst of the gods for human blood...